Lauren Bacall and politics

Actress Lauren Bacall died Tuesday at the age of 89. Beginning with her stunning movie debut in 1944 opposite future husband Humphrey Bogart in Howard Hawks’ “To Have and Have Not,” she spent 70 years acting and interacting with some of the most fascinating people of the era (including her cousin Shimon Peres, the Israeli political leader). Some of that interaction took the form of political and social activism; here are some of those moments.

Actress Lauren Bacall gets a kiss from President Bill Clinton after an evening of tribute to the screen star and four other Kennedy Center honorees on Dec. 7, 1997, in Washington, D.C. At left is choreographer and dancer Edward Villella, also an honoree.